Sandra Bernhard Quotes
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.
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I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.
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I remember clearly, when I was about 4, my Aunt Linda said, 'I'm not babysitting him no more. He's bad.' It was one of the first conscious shifts I remember making. I decided, 'I'm going to be good now.'
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
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I don't think a reggaeton song will break again like 'Gasolina' did.
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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Every food I choose to eat helps me become more conscious of how it either moves me forward to my fab weight or backward to my flab weight.
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People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways.
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I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.
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I wish I had eaten more rice cakes.
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The older I get, the more I appreciate the idea of being thrown together with a group of people you might have a lot in common with, or nothing at all. You don't have the option of doing anything other than making your family relationships work - forever. I like that.
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I come from a singing family and as is said, 'the apple does not fall far from the tree.'
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If anyone can crack the publicity nut and figure out how to not come across hammy and contrived, I'd love to talk to them.
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My family wasn't the Brady Bunch. They were the Broody Bunch.
